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Cheney and Bush, Together Again

Now that former Vice President Dick Cheney has been released from a Washington hospital earlier today, he’ll at least get to have coffee with his old boss on Thursday.

Peter Long, a spokesman for the former vice president, said in a statement that Mr. Cheney had been discharged from George Washington University Hospital and “will resume his normal schedule shortly.”

Mr. Cheney will not attend at least one item that had been on his calendar: a Friday breakfast slated to include former President George W. Bush and staff members of the Bush-Cheney White House.

Tony Fratto, a deputy press secretary in that administration, confirmed that Mr. Cheney is not expected to attend the unofficial reunion. Mr. Bush is returning to the Washington area to go to a Marine Corps University Foundation awards dinner.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney will have coffee on Thursday — marking the first time the two have seen each other since they left office on Jan. 20, 2009.

Mr. Cheney’s schedule has been curtailed since he sustained what appeared to be a mild heart attack on Monday, when he was hospitalized for chest pains. He has now sustained five heart attacks.

Now based in Dallas, Mr. Bush has mostly stayed out of the public eye since leaving the Oval Office, even as Mr. Cheney has taken on the current president and Mr. Obama has pointed to the problems he said he inherited from the Bush administration.

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